It has been Paul Johnson's lusted-for holy grail all season. The Jackets beat Virginia Tech, and he still found fault. They rolled up 56 points and almost 600 yards of offense at Vanderbilt, but there were flaws, he said.

He said even this week that the Jackets have yet to play what he considers a perfect game. So how did this one register in his gradebook?

The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets answered the bell, demolishing Duke 49-10 on the road and clinching for themselves a place in the ACC Championship next month. The win was Tech's eighth in a row, a feat not matched since a man named Dodd was head coach.

Struggling early, it was, somewhat ironically, a special teams play that s...